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Monetizing content does not increase its “quality” in some absolute sense. Monetizing content causes creators to create the content that monetizes the best. L
by schmichael 3y ago
Monetizing content does not increase its “quality” in some absolute sense.
Monetizing content causes creators to create the content that monetizes the best.
Long thoughtful posts may be the highest “quality” across multiple dimensions, but a meme or witty joke is likely to garner a tip from more people because it’s more accessible, digestible, and can pander to baser emotions easier.
I don’t think any micro transactions based reward system for commenters will create a dynamic diverse flourishing community of communities like Reddit. It will feed on whatever gets the tips until only a certain demographic sticks around to tip each other and receive tips (aka patting each other on the back)
Reddit’s largely anonymous rewardless system means you only comment if you actually care. Money can’t buy that.
- hinkley 3y agoIn other words, you invite professional pandering.
- JSavageOne 3y agoI agree. Originally I'd been planning to have upvotes be redeemable as tokens, but quickly scrapped that idea for the same reason. I'm thinking now the best way a site like Reddit can satisfy people like me disappointed with the quality is to improve their ML algorithms to better serve content suited to users. I'm not talking about anything revolutionary here, can just do some basic clustering and add an "insightful" option. I'm admittedly not a ML person so not claiming any expertise here. I hope someone more well-versed in that area can create a Reddit clone or Chrome extension or something that has these better more accurate comment sort by algorithms, I'd sign up.